Welcome to Hedgehog Class - Year 1 and 2
Summer Term 2026
Welcome to our new term, Hedgehogs. This term children will be learning about famous scientists and then plants after half term. As artists, children will be exploring sculpture with clay, and designing smoothies in D&T. As historians, children will learn about the history of space exploration and the work of Katherine Johnson. In geography, children will learn about the United Kingdom. In RE the children will learn about Islam, exploring the importance of visiting a mosque and completing Hajj to a Muslim’s sense of belonging. In Computing, we will learn about algorithms and debugging, as well as word processing, and in PSHE we will be exploring the topic of safety, and the changing body.
Our key texts in English are Space Tortoise and The Storm Whale. Writing genres will include: fictional narratives; non-fiction posters and adverts; shape and free verse poems. Maths will focus on: money; fractions; time; measuring mass, capacity and volume; and position and direction.
PE this term will continue to be on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. All children will need to come to school dressed in their PE kit please.
Homework will be sent out on Fridays and should be returned on Wednesdays.
For further information regarding the full curriculum for this term, please click on the Timetable and Knowledge Organisers below. The curriculum overview shows all of our learning for two years
